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Sterilization   Listen
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Sterilization  n.  (Biol.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.






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"Sterilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... associates he had noticed an increasing awareness of the invisible. This he claimed was manifest in the fact that the young men educated since the rise of bacteriological science were more punctilious in the matter of extreme personal cleanliness and the sterilization of their instruments than the older and often more accomplished surgeons whose habits in these matters had been formed before the general sense of an invisible ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... philosophizing has been nothing but a mask for proselytizing! [To the Statue] Have you forgotten already the hideous dulness from which I am offering you a refuge here? [To Don Juan] And does your demonstration of the approaching sterilization and extinction of mankind lead to anything better than making the most of those pleasures of art and love which you yourself admit refined you, elevated ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw



Words linked to "Sterilization" :   sterilize, cleaning, altering, operation, cleanup, surgical contraception, surgery, cleansing, surgical procedure, pasteurization, fixing, pasteurisation



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